...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....

[News] Cho Sung Ha and Big Bang’s T.O.P. confirmed for ‘Alumni’.

A representative of the film, which will be directed by Park Shin Woo, revealed, “T.O.P. and Jo Sung Ha recently accepted their casting offers and completed their contracts a few days ago.”

T.O.P. will be playing the son of a North Korean spy, whose father dies due to false charges. In order to save his remaining younger sister, he accepts an offer from another spy agent, who will be played by Cho Sung Ha, to become a spy himself and kill other spy agents from the South.

Director Park Shin Woo is most known for his 2009 film, ‘White Night‘, in addition to his co-production with PD Kim Hyung Shik for SBS‘s ‘Phantom‘.

Filming will begin on July 11th and is expected to last until September.